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Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions.Sports journalism has its roots in coverage of horse racing and boxing in the early 1800s, mainly targeted towards elites, and into the 1900s transitioned into an integral part of the news business with newspapers having dedicated sports sections. [1]
Gheorghe Sencovici (1 July 1945 – 9 May 2006) was a Romanian former sports shooter.He competed in the skeet event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. [1] He was married to the singer Margareta Pâslaru.
He was a three-sport athlete in high school, but excelled at football above all. [67] He was heavily recruited by many elite college football programs, but the NFL legend Jim Brown convinced Davis to attend Syracuse University as it would be a welcoming place for a young black athlete in 1959. [ 67 ]
Future IOC president Avery Brundage requested, during or shortly after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, that a system be established to examine female athletes.According to a Time magazine article about intersex people, Brundage felt the need to clarify "sex ambiguities" after observing the performance of Czechoslovak runner and jumper Zdeňka Koubková and English shotputter and javelin ...